April 3, 2024 • 46 mins
Discover the profound lessons that emerge from the aftermath of the great flood as we navigate the transformative directives handed down to Noah and his family. Join me, Rick, on Renewed Mindsets, where we unravel the story of humanity's second chance, the divine mandate to replenish the earth, and the unprecedented permission to consume meat. We ponder the ecological and ethical ramifications of this new world order, where the animal kingdom now harbors fear of mankind, and reflect on the delicate balance of creation that was recalibrated in the wake of cataclysmic change.
Venture further as we interpret the enduring covenant between God and all living creatures, symbolized by the vibrant arc of the rainbow. This episode delves into God's measures to secure a more hopeful future for His creation, contrasting the self-absorbed attitudes of contemporary society with the moral decay of Noah's era. As we dissect these ancient texts, the dialogue invites a deeper appreciation for the steadfastness of divine promises and the significance of maintaining respect and obedience to God's sovereignty, drawing powerful parallels to the challenges we face in today's world.
Lastly, we dissect the sobering tale of Noah's intoxication and the subsequent curse of Ham, probing beyond the surface to uncover lessons on authority, family integrity, and the ramifications of alcohol misuse. By contemplating the wisdom imparted through Proverbs, our discussion exposes the stark consequences of our choices, challenging us to uphold godly behavior in a world that often forgets the value of temperance and honor. Step into this space of reflection and revelation with us as we seek to apply timeless truths to our modern existence.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, welcome to Renewed Mindsets, where we study
the basics of the faith throughthe lens of our middle-aged
experiences.
I'm Rick.
Welcome to the show where Ihelp you Gen Xers and
Millennials navigate spirituallythrough a world that looks
nothing like we expected back,when cars were square and
mullets were totally awesome.
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I am so glad you're here.
I'm going to give you a littlebackstory to catch you up or for
the ones that have absolutelyno idea what I'm talking about.
So you'll know.
But it seems like everybody'sheard of Noah and the ark.
This is from Genesis, chapter 7and 8, and I'm just going to do
a synopsis till we can get tothe point where we're going to
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start here.
Well, the Lord instructs Noahand his family to enter the ark
because Noah is the onlyrighteous person in his
generation.
Noah had built the arkaccording to plans that God sent
him.
God directs Noah to bring sevenpairs of clean animals, one
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pair of unclean animals andseven pairs of each kind of bird
onto the ark.
Now, after seven days, god isgoing to send rain to the earth.
For 40 days and nights, noahobeys God's commands and when
Noah is 600 years old, the floodbegins.
He, his family, along with theclean animals, the unclean
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animals and the birds escape inthe ark.
The flood arrives, as God hadforetold, and God seals Noah,
his wife, his sons, shem Ham andJapheth and their wives inside
the ark and Japheth and theirwives inside the ark.
Now, as the rain continues, theark floats on the rising waters
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, covering even the highestmountains, and every living
creature on the earth perishes.
All the humans die, except forNoah and his family.
They stay on the ark for 150days.
Stay on the ark for 150 days.
The ground dries up and the arkis unsealed and the people and
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the animals inside disperse uponthe new post-flood world.
Now, as you can imagine, if theworld was covered with water
for 150 days, it's going tochange the way the world, the
way the earth looks like.
So God is going to give Noahsome new instructions on how to
live in this new world.
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So verse 1 through 4 in chapter9 of Genesis.
So God blessed Noah and hissons and he said to them Be
fruitful and multiply and fillthe earth, and the fear of you
and the dread of you shall be onevery beast of the earth, on
every bird of the air, on allthat move on the earth and all
the fish of the sea.
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They are given into your hand.
Every moving thing that livesshall be food for you.
I have given you all things,even as the green herbs, but you
shall not eat flesh with itslife.
That is its blood.
So these first four verses, godgives instructions for a
post-flood world.
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Now, as I'm talking, there'sgoing to be a lot of speculation
for these verses.
The story of Noah gives somespecific instructions from God,
but it doesn't really givespecifics on some of the things
that happened.
Now the first thing that Godsays is be fruitful and multiply
.
Now, this is essential becausethe world had become so
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depopulated which is a nice wayof saying there were no other
people in the world.
You had Noah and his wife,noah's three sons and their
three wives.
That was it.
The world that Noah entered fromthe ark was significantly
different from the world that heknew before.
God gave Noah the same kind ofmandate that he gave Adam in the
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beginning of creation inGenesis, chapter 1, since Noah,
essentially, is going to beginall over again.
Then God says every movingthing that lives is going to be
food for you.
Now, even as Adam receivedinstructions for eating, do not
eat from the tree of knowledgeof good and evil, of the garden.
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You may eat everything.
That's in Genesis chapter 1 and2.
So did Noah.
But now Noah received specificpermission to eat animals.
That's permission that Adamwasn't given.
As far as we know Now, this isprobably because the earth was
less productive and you're likeless productive.
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But after the flood there'secological changes.
That's mentioned in Genesischapter 9 and Genesis chapter 8.
As long as the earth remainsthere, there will be planting
and harvest, cold and heat,summer and winter, day and night
and night.
Therefore, god gave manpermission to eat.
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So really, before the flood,the earth, the way the earth was
set up, there was probably norain.
I mean, the way it sounds isthat the earth was just this
bounty that god had made, thatthe earth was just this bounty
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that God had made.
So it says, as long as theearth remains, now there's going
to be planting and harvest,which tells me that before there
wasn't planting and harvest.
Cold and heat, summer andwinter, day and night.
It sounds like these are newthings.
So what meat has to do with it?
I don't really know.
It could be that what peopleate before then was packed with
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different vitamins and minerals,different types of protein.
It's, like I said, speculation.
It's kind of fun to think about, but either way, now God is
saying you can eat these animals, which brings him to the next
thing that he tells us is thatthe fear of you and the dread of
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you shall be on every beast ofthe earth.
So I guess if now man could andwould eat animals, then God's
going to help the animals Fortheir protection.
God put fear of mankind Again.
This is a presumption, butmaybe before the flood man had a
different relationship withanimals.
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God didn't put fear in animalsbecause man didn't look to them
for food.
Like the horse.
We have a lot of animals thatare domesticated and a lot of
animals that have helped usthroughout the centuries and
longer to help us as humans getthings done.
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The horse is a big animal andif it knew its own strength and
the weakness of man who rideshim and drives him and whips him
and goads him and oppresses him, if the horse knew his own
strength he would know that withone stroke of his hoof he could
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destroy the person thatpossesses him.
But while God hides thesethings from him, he impresses in
the horse's mind with the fearof his owner, so that he can be
trained and employed to beuseful and important for humans.
Just something to think about.
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The next thing God says is butyou shall not eat flesh with its
life, that is its blood.
So God also commanded Noah thatif animals were killed and
eaten, then there has to be aproper respect for the blood,
which represents the lifeprinciple of the animal.
You can find that in Leviticus,chapter 17, and Deuteronomy,
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verse 12.
The importance of the idea ofblood in the Bible is shown by
how often the word is used inthe Bible.
Now I'm reading from the KingJames Version, the New King
James Version, and it's used 424times in 357 different verses.
Blood is very important to God.
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Apparently the respect forblood isn't based on mysticism
or superstition, but simplybecause blood represents the
life of the being, whether it'sanimal or human.
When blood is poured out, lifeis poured out, and over and over
and over we see blood as thecentral place.
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All over the Bible, blood was asign of mercy In Exodus,
chapter 12, it was mercy forIsrael at the first Passover.
Blood sealed God's covenantwith Israel.
Blood sanctified the altar.
Blood set aside the priests.
Blood atonement for God'speople.
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That's all from Exodus.
Blood sealed the new covenant.
That's from Matthew.
And they're talking about Jesus.
The blood of Jesus.
Blood justifies us in Romans.
In Ephesians, blood bringsredemption.
In Colossians, blood bringspeace with God.
In Hebrews 9 and 1 John 1,.
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Blood cleanses us, blood givesentrance to God's holy place in
Hebrews and sanctifies us.
And in Revelation, bloodenables us to overcome Satan.
There's something sacred,something totally and utterly
sacred to blood.
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In the eyes of God, it's thepoured out life of Jesus that
brings salvation to his people.
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So, moving on to verse 5-7,sheds man's blood.
By man, his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God he
made man.
And as for you, be fruitful andmultiply, bring forth
abundantly in the earth andmultiply it.
So what God's saying here issurely for your lifeblood, I
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will demand a reckoningAccording to God's command.
When man's blood is shed, theremust be an accounting for it,
because in the image of God hemade man, because man is made in
the image of God, his life isinherently precious and cannot
be taken without giving a goutto God.
By man, his blood shall be shed.
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That just means because life isvaluable.
When murder is committed, thedeath penalty is in order.
Yeah, the death penalty, it'ssomething that we don't like to
talk about.
It's something that there's alot of controversy about, and I
get that.
There's a lot of things wrongwith the death penalty,
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especially in this country.
You know the way it's dispersed, the way that it's
inconsistently given out.
Some people even say that it'scruel.
But in the original languagesthe Bible makes a distinction
between killing and murder.
Not all killing is murder,because there's cases when
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there's just cause for killingSelf-defense, capital punishment
with the due process of the law, killing in a just war.
There are other instances wherekilling is accidental.
This is killing, but it's notmurder.
God requires capital punishment.
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The Bible also consistentlyteaches that the punishment of
the guilty is the role of humangovernment.
That's in Romans, chapter 13,to restrain man's depravity.
It also teaches that the guiltof the unpunished murders
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defiles a land, and that's fromNumbers 35.
Martin Luther said Godestablishes government and gives
it the sword to hold wantonnessin check, lest violence and
other sins proceed without limit.
God requires a reckoning formurder.
Then God goes on to say Fromthe hand of every beast I will
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require it.
So to see the strength of God'scommand.
He even requires a reckoningfor the life of a man killed by
an animal.
God does not condone unlawfulkilling of any kind.
And then he says be fruitfuland multiply.
This is kind of funny, becauseit was so nice, God said it
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twice.
This point was repeated becauseit needed emphasis.
The earth badly neededrepopulating and God knew that.
Moving on to verses 8-11.
Then God spoke to Noah and tohis sons with him, saying and as
for me, behold, I establish mycovenant with you and with your
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descendants after you, and withevery living creature that's
with you, the birds, the cattleand every beast of the earth
with you, of all that go out ofthe ark, every beast of the
earth.
Thus, I establish my covenantwith you Never again shall all
flesh be cut off by the watersof the flood, never again shall
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there be a flood to destroy theearth.
That's pretty straightforward.
God says I establish mycovenant.
This covenant was made withmankind, you and your
descendants after you, and evenwith the animals, every living
creature that's with you.
This was so important to Godthat not only did he make a
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promise, a covenant with hispeople, he made it with all of
creation, with all of theanimals.
God promised he would neveragain destroy everything of the
world with a flood or to coverthe whole earth with a flood.
This was a repetition and aclarification of the promise
that God made in Genesis,chapter 8.
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God honors his covenants.
He said never again shall therebe a flood to destroy the earth
Again, shall there be a floodto destroy the earth.
Now it's important to rememberthat God didn't say that because
he believed that he didsomething wrong or that he was
too harsh by having a flood.
He made the promise because hedid things in the post-flood
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world to guarantee that theexact evil conditions of the
pre-flood world would never beduplicated of the pre-flood
world would never be duplicatedNow.
These things included theimprisonment of the angels who
sinned with human women in Jude6.
You know, the angels came downthe ones that were cast out with
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Satan, and they decided theywere going to lay with human
women and they made hybrids,changed the DNA of God's
creation of human and made ahybrid which were called
Nephilim or giants.
There were giants.
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That's all found in Jude 6.
And of course, god shortens thelifespan of man.
After this, people lived a long, long time and after the flood.
They didn't.
God did this to protectcreation from the same danger of
depravity, so that thoseprecise things would not be
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duplicated.
But when the things againbecome similar to the days of
Noah, god will destroy the earth.
In Matthew 24, verse 37, we seethat.
But it's when things becomesimilar to the days of Noah, not
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when things become just likethe days of Noah.
And if you think about whathappened during the days of Noah
, not when things become justlike the days of Noah.
And if you think about whathappened during the days of Noah
, the world was filled withsexual depravity and people who
love themselves more than God.
Kind of sounds familiar to theworld we're living in now, to
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the world we're living in now.
The world is going to bedestroyed, but not by a flood.
It's going to be destroyed byfire.
That's found in 2 Peter,chapter 3.
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See ya, verses 12 through 17,.
God says this is the sign ofthe covenant which I make
between me and you and everyliving creature that is with you
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for perpetual generations,creature of all flesh.
The water shall never againbecome a flood to destroy all
flesh.
The rainbow shall be in thecloud and I will look on it to
remember the everlastingcovenant between God and every
living creature of all fleshthat is on the earth.
And God said to Noah this isthe sign of the covenant which I
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have established between me andall flesh that is on the earth.
Now, this is an impressivecovenant and it was made not
only between God and humanity,but God made the promise to all
creation, including the animalsand the earth itself.
He set a rainbow in the cloudBecause of the blanket of the
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water vapors that were releasedin the flood and the water cycle
of the earth that changed afterthe flood.
This may be the first occurrenceof a rainbow.
We really don't know, but Itend to think that before the
flood, that it never rained thatthe earth was made, and it was
different.
The water was under the groundand when the flood came, the
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waters were released from underthe ground and came up, as well
as rain falling from the sky.
That's how the earth flooded.
It was something that theywould not have expected.
And if you think about it, ifyou're living on the earth and
God has told Noah to build a bigboat out in the middle of
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nowhere and the people that areliving are laughing at Noah and
mocking the man of God which isanother thing that happens these
days, similar to the days ofNoah thing that happens these
days, similar to the days ofNoah and he said that God was
going to make it rain for 40days.
Well, these people didn't knowwhat rain was.
Did Noah know what rain was?
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Noah was just being obedient.
God said build it.
He started building it.
So this may very well have beenthe first instance of a rainbow
.
God used the rainbow as a signto Noah and all the generations
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that he would be faithful tothis covenant, and it shall be
for the sign of the covenantbetween me and the earth.
Every time we see a rainbow, weneed to remember the
faithfulness of god and everyone of his promises.
He even says his covenant ofpeace with us is just as secure
as his covenant with noah andall the generations.
For this is like the waters ofnoah to me, for I have sworn
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that the waters of noah would nolonger cover the earth.
So have I sworn that I wouldnot be angry with you nor rebuke
you, for the mountains shalldepart and the hills be removed,
but my kindness shall notdepart from you, nor shall my
covenant of peace be removed,says the Lord who has mercy on
you.
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That's from Isaiah 54, 9 and 10.
In those verses it says I willlook on it and remember the
everlasting covenant In theBible.
There's other mentions of arainbow In the Bible.
They're set in the context ofGod's throne, his enthroned
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glory.
In Ezekiel 128 and Revelation4.3, he talks about the throne
of God and a rainbow that'saround it.
God set a rainbow around histhrone.
It's impressive that he set itso close to himself as a
reminder of his promise to man.
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God doesn't only look at therainbow on earth and remember
the covenant, he looks at therainbow that surrounds his
throne.
God's committed to remainingfaithful to his covenant.
Now, on the same principle.
We, as believers, we glorifyGod, we praise Him in His
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sovereignty, because we knowthat God's sovereignty is on our
side.
It means no good purpose of Godrelating to the believer will
ever be left undone.
And one other thing God saysthat I will look down and see my
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rainbow, my rainbow.
The rainbow is God's.
It doesn't belong to apolitical action group.
It doesn't belong to a socialjustice group.
We hear a lot about rainbowsthese days, but that rainbow is
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God's rainbow and that's what weneed to think about when we see
it.
So, moving on to verses 18 and19.
Now, the sons of Noah who wentout of the ark were Shem.
Now, the sons of Noah who wentout of the ark were Shem, ham
and Japheth.
And Ham was the father ofCanaan.
These three were the sons ofNoah, and from these the whole
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earth was populated.
Noah's three sons emerged fromthe catastrophe of the flood
into a brand new world.
Now, from these three sons ofNoah came all the nations.
All the way that we know peopleof the earth came from these
three.
The descendants of these threesons are listed in Genesis,
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chapter 10.
I'm not going to go over it,but you can, in verses 20
through 23,.
It says and Noah began to be afarmer and he planted a vineyard
.
Then he drank of the wine andwas drunk and became uncovered
in his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan,saw the nakedness of his father
and told his two brothersoutside.
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But Shem and Japheth took agarment, laid it on their
shoulders and went backward andcovered the nakedness of their
father.
Their faces were turned awayand they did not see their
father's nakedness.
Now this verse, especially whenyou're kids, is kind of funny.
You're giggling because youthink of Noah laying naked on
the floor.
That's something to think aboutas we discuss this.
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There's going to be somespeculation here.
But first off, noah began to bea farmer Now making his way
into this new world.
After the flood, noah began toprovide for himself and his
family and he probably planted awhole lot of different things.
Among them was a vineyard, andthis is the first mention of a
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vineyard in the Bible.
It says he drank of the wineand was drunk.
It may not have been the firstinstance of a mention of a
vineyard, but it is the firstmention of drunkenness in the
Bible.
Now, does that mean that it wasonly after the flood that man
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made liquor or intoxicatingdrink, I don't know, but Noah's
own sinful and shameful actionsshow the foolishness of being
drunk.
We have Proverbs.
I love Proverbs and if you'velistened to my other podcast,
wisdom of the Day, which is allabout Proverbs, you'll get that
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Proverbs has a lot to say aboutdrunkenness.
It says wine is a mocker,strong drink is a brawler and
whoever is led astray by it isnot wise.
That's from Proverbs 20.
And Proverbs 23 says who haswoe, who has sorrow, who has woe
, who has sorrow, who hascontentions, who has complaints,
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who has wounds without cause,who has redness of eyes, those
who linger at the wine, thosewho go in search of mixed wine.
Do not look on the wine when itis red, when it sparkles in the
cup, when it swirls aroundsmoothly.
At the last it bites like aserpent and stings like a viper.
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Your eyes will see strangethings and your heart will utter
perverse things.
Drunkenness, being drunk, isnot wise in the eyes of God.
It's also not wise in the eyesof most human beings.
Some of the dumbest, most stupidthings that we've ever done
have happened when we were drunk.
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It shows the foolishness ofthose who claim God's desire is
to make people drunk in theSpirit through the work of a
holy ghost bartender.
I've been places before wherethe people say that they're
drunk in the Spirit.
Now that could just be a figureof speech, where the people say
that they're drunk in theSpirit Now that could just be a
figure of speech.
But I've seen people that haveacted totally crazy, saying that
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they were drunk in the Spiritand stumbling around and acting
like they had no self-control.
Now I've been filled with theSpirit before.
I'm a Holy Ghost-filled man ofGod.
I have the Holy Spirit in meand I've been overcome with the
Spirit before, which set me tosinging or dancing or praising
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God loudly and acting a littlebit foolish compared to normal.
And if you know me, I'mconstantly acting foolish.
But I was never out of my mindor what I would consider drunk
like I would be if I was drunkwith wine or liquor.
Ephesians 5.8 says Do not bedrunk with wine, in which is
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dissipation or wastefulness, butbe filled with the Spirit.
It makes a contrast of the workof the Holy Spirit with the
effects on drunkenness.
Alcohol is a depressant.
It loosens people because itdepresses their self-control,
their wisdom, their balance,their judgment, but the filling
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of the Holy Spirit.
That has an exact oppositeeffect.
The Holy Spirit is a stimulant.
He influences every aspect ofour being to be better and to be
more perfect and makes ourperformance perfect.
So no, this phrase, thisdescription of being drunk in
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the Spirit, the actions of thosewho subscribe to this notion.
They're wrong.
Drunk in the Spirit has noplace among God's people.
So then we move on to the verse.
It says and became uncovered inhis tent.
Now we're going to get intosome speculation.
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Some of you are going to thinkI'm a complete nut.
Others of you are going to hearthis and think, wow, maybe this
is it.
It's just something to thinkabout.
And I say this because inMatthew it talks about when the
earth, when the world, when thepeople of the world start acting
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like they did during the timeof Noah.
So Noah is in this tent andhe's uncovered.
And in the Bible in Leviticus,chapter 18, the phrase become
uncovered and the idea ofnakedness is sometimes
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associated with sexual relations.
Now, in this speculating time,I'm going to say that when it
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says that Noah became uncoveredin his tent, there may was some
kind of sexual abuse that hadhappened by one of his sons or a
relative.
I know this is kind ofrepulsive but it's not terribly
surprising.
Many of you know many peoplewho get drunk become victims of
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abuse sexual and otherwise and alarge majority of the men and
women that are involved in daterape situations were drinking or
taking drugs just before theattack.
I mean, according to somestatistics, half of all rape,
half of all rapes, involvealcohol.
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There are a lot of more, a lotof more.
There's a lot more cost todrunkenness.
In the 1990s they figure100,000 people died each year in
alcohol-related deaths eachyear in alcohol-related deaths.
And the cost to this nation dueto alcohol abuse costs us
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hundreds of billions of dollarsevery year.
So if we think about what I justsaid, the next verse says that
Ham had seen the nakedness ofhis father.
Others think that Ham's onlysin here was seeing naked Noah.
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Think that his only sin wasseeing Noah's drunken body
uncovered and that he made funof him, mocking him as a father
and a man of God.
Literally, in the ancientHebrew it says that Ham told
with delight what he saw in hisfather's tent.
He was determined to mock hisfather and was undermining his
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authority as a man of God.
So there are two ways that youcan think of it.
That's really up to the readerand up to the Holy Spirit.
As you're reading the Bible toexplain Scripture to you as we
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move on to verses 24 through 27,.
It says so Noah awoke from hiswine and he knew what his
younger son had done to him.
And then he said Cursed beCanaan, a servant of servants.
He shall be to his brethren.
And he said Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, and may
Canaan be his servant.
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May God enlarge Japheth and mayhe dwell in the tents of Shem
and may Canaan be his servant.
So in that verse it says heawoke and knew what his younger
son had done to him.
What does that mean?
Knew what his younger son haddone to him.
Did he wake up and get arevelation from God that Ham had
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been making fun of him, thatHam had been making fun of him?
Did he wake up and immediatelyknow that Ham had made fun of
him but his other two sons hadcome in and not seen him like
that and put a blanket over himto cover him?
I mean you're kind ofstretching that way because it
doesn't say, but it also seemsto indicate that whatever
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happened to Noah, it was morethan one of his sons or his
grandson seeing him naked.
And it also kind of explainsthe strength of the curse
because it says cursed be Canaan.
It seems strange that if Hamsinned against Noah and that
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Canaan was cursed, that it was alittle more than just somebody
seeing him and making fun of him.
That's scary to me because Itend to want to joke about
things.
Man, what an awful, awfulpunishment to be cursed for
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laughing at somebody layingthere naked.
Maybe Canaan was involved inthe sin against Noah in a way
that is not told of in the text.
Maybe the strongest punishmentagainst Ham was for Noah to
prophetically reveal the destinyof his son.
But we can trust that God isnot punishing the son.
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He's not punishing the son forthe sin of the father, because
this goes against the heart andjustice of God in Ezekiel,
chapter 18.
But through Noah's prophecy Godtold Ham what would happen to
his son.
It says may Canaan be hisservant.
In earlier, earlier generationsand this is something that I
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just need to say there was a lotof prejudice, especially in the
United States, and there was alot of churches, a lot of
denominations, especially in thesouth, that regarded the
descendants of Canaan as blackpeople from Africa, and they
used this verse, they used thecurse on Canaan to justify
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slavery.
But black people did not comefrom Canaan.
Canaan was the father of theNear Eastern peoples.
He was the father, and thedescendants of Canaan were
people who were conquered byJoshua when Israel took over the
promised land.
And I hate the fact that I haveto say that churches in America
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, that men of God in America,twisted the word of God so much
to justify something as horribleas slavery.
It's really just uncalled forand ridiculous.
And someone answered for it.
So we move on to verses 28 and29.
And Noah lived after the flood350 years.
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The flood 350 years.
So all the days of Noah were950 years and he died.
Noah lived after the flood for350 years.
Wow, noah was a remarkable manwho served God in his own
generation, but his last yearsdon't seem to match the glory of
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his first years.
It really seems kind of sad,because Noah was the one that
was found righteous of all menthat were on the earth.
The whole reason there was aflood is because God saw Noah
and said there is a man of God.
I'm going to destroy the earth,but I'm going to save him and
his family.
His last years don't seem tomatch that glory.
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It seems kind of sad that thelast thing that we hear about
Noah is that he was drunk andnaked.
All the days of Noah were 950years.
Noah was a man of great triumphand great weakness, and that's
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something that we need toremember.
As men and women of God, we cando awesome, wonderful things
for the Lord, but we will failoccasionally.
God loves us and God sees usfor who we really are.
Noah's godliness is rememberedin the New Testament, marking
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him as a man of faith in Hebrews11, verse 7, and as a preacher
of righteousness 2 Peter 2.5.
So really the last thing wehear about Noah in the Bible is
from the New Testament, wherehe's a faithful man and a
preacher of righteousness.
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One thing I want to get intoright before we finish here is
in these verses, as we comparedand talked about what happened
after the flood, and in Matthew,where it says that the end
draws near and Jesus will comeback when the earth looks like
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the time of Noah, which is nowthat this verse or this chapter
in chapter 9 points to JesusBlood.
The first thing is blood.
It resonates with the work ofJesus on the cross.
In Romans 5, 9, we arejustified by the blood.
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In Ephesians 2.13, we arebrought near by the blood.
In Colossians 1.14, we haveredemption through the blood.
Over and over and over, it's bythe blood of Jesus that all
these things are available to us, jesus, that all these things
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are available to us.
The rainbow was the sign of thecovenant that God made with Noah
, and we can compare thatrainbow with the sign that God
gave us for the new covenantthrough Jesus the bread and the
cup.
At the last supper, jesus saidthis is the new covenant.
This cup is the new covenant inmy blood.
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The new covenant, the oldcovenant, was the one that God
made with creation that he wouldnot destroy the earth by flood.
The new covenant is thecovenant in the blood of Jesus.
The rainbow is a tremendoussign and every time we see it we
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need to remember God'sfaithfulness.
But the bread and the cup arean even better sign, because we
really don't partake of arainbow.
You can't touch a rainbow, youcan't eat a rainbow, and there's
a lie going around that you cantaste a rainbow.
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A rainbow is wonderful, but thebread in the cup you can not
only see that, but you canpartake of it, and we put our
faith and our trust in that,jesus Christ.
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I am so glad you're here.
I'm going to give you a littlebackstory to catch you up or for
the ones that have absolutelyno idea what I'm talking about.
So you'll know.
But it seems like everybody'sheard of Noah and the ark.
This is from Genesis, chapter 7and 8, and I'm just going to do
a synopsis till we can get tothe point where we're going to
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start here.
Well, the Lord instructs Noahand his family to enter the ark
because Noah is the onlyrighteous person in his
generation.
Noah had built the arkaccording to plans that God sent
him.
God directs Noah to bring sevenpairs of clean animals, one
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pair of unclean animals andseven pairs of each kind of bird
onto the ark.
Now, after seven days, god isgoing to send rain to the earth.
For 40 days and nights, noahobeys God's commands and when
Noah is 600 years old, the floodbegins.
He, his family, along with theclean animals, the unclean
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animals and the birds escape inthe ark.
The flood arrives, as God hadforetold, and God seals Noah,
his wife, his sons, shem Ham andJapheth and their wives inside
the ark and Japheth and theirwives inside the ark.
Now, as the rain continues, theark floats on the rising waters
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, covering even the highestmountains, and every living
creature on the earth perishes.
All the humans die, except forNoah and his family.
They stay on the ark for 150days.
Stay on the ark for 150 days.
The ground dries up and the arkis unsealed and the people and
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the animals inside disperse uponthe new post-flood world.
Now, as you can imagine, if theworld was covered with water
for 150 days, it's going tochange the way the world, the
way the earth looks like.
So God is going to give Noahsome new instructions on how to
live in this new world.
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So verse 1 through 4 in chapter9 of Genesis.
So God blessed Noah and hissons and he said to them Be
fruitful and multiply and fillthe earth, and the fear of you
and the dread of you shall be onevery beast of the earth, on
every bird of the air, on allthat move on the earth and all
the fish of the sea.
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They are given into your hand.
Every moving thing that livesshall be food for you.
I have given you all things,even as the green herbs, but you
shall not eat flesh with itslife.
That is its blood.
So these first four verses, godgives instructions for a
post-flood world.
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Now, as I'm talking, there'sgoing to be a lot of speculation
for these verses.
The story of Noah gives somespecific instructions from God,
but it doesn't really givespecifics on some of the things
that happened.
Now the first thing that Godsays is be fruitful and multiply
.
Now, this is essential becausethe world had become so
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depopulated which is a nice wayof saying there were no other
people in the world.
You had Noah and his wife,noah's three sons and their
three wives.
That was it.
The world that Noah entered fromthe ark was significantly
different from the world that heknew before.
God gave Noah the same kind ofmandate that he gave Adam in the
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beginning of creation inGenesis, chapter 1, since Noah,
essentially, is going to beginall over again.
Then God says every movingthing that lives is going to be
food for you.
Now, even as Adam receivedinstructions for eating, do not
eat from the tree of knowledgeof good and evil, of the garden.
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You may eat everything.
That's in Genesis chapter 1 and2.
So did Noah.
But now Noah received specificpermission to eat animals.
That's permission that Adamwasn't given.
As far as we know Now, this isprobably because the earth was
less productive and you're likeless productive.
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But after the flood there'secological changes.
That's mentioned in Genesischapter 9 and Genesis chapter 8.
As long as the earth remainsthere, there will be planting
and harvest, cold and heat,summer and winter, day and night
and night.
Therefore, god gave manpermission to eat.
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So really, before the flood,the earth, the way the earth was
set up, there was probably norain.
I mean, the way it sounds isthat the earth was just this
bounty that god had made, thatthe earth was just this bounty
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that God had made.
So it says, as long as theearth remains, now there's going
to be planting and harvest,which tells me that before there
wasn't planting and harvest.
Cold and heat, summer andwinter, day and night.
It sounds like these are newthings.
So what meat has to do with it?
I don't really know.
It could be that what peopleate before then was packed with
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different vitamins and minerals,different types of protein.
It's, like I said, speculation.
It's kind of fun to think about, but either way, now God is
saying you can eat these animals, which brings him to the next
thing that he tells us is thatthe fear of you and the dread of
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you shall be on every beast ofthe earth.
So I guess if now man could andwould eat animals, then God's
going to help the animals Fortheir protection.
God put fear of mankind Again.
This is a presumption, butmaybe before the flood man had a
different relationship withanimals.
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God didn't put fear in animalsbecause man didn't look to them
for food.
Like the horse.
We have a lot of animals thatare domesticated and a lot of
animals that have helped usthroughout the centuries and
longer to help us as humans getthings done.
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The horse is a big animal andif it knew its own strength and
the weakness of man who rideshim and drives him and whips him
and goads him and oppresses him, if the horse knew his own
strength he would know that withone stroke of his hoof he could
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destroy the person thatpossesses him.
But while God hides thesethings from him, he impresses in
the horse's mind with the fearof his owner, so that he can be
trained and employed to beuseful and important for humans.
Just something to think about.
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The next thing God says is butyou shall not eat flesh with its
life, that is its blood.
So God also commanded Noah thatif animals were killed and
eaten, then there has to be aproper respect for the blood,
which represents the lifeprinciple of the animal.
You can find that in Leviticus,chapter 17, and Deuteronomy,
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verse 12.
The importance of the idea ofblood in the Bible is shown by
how often the word is used inthe Bible.
Now I'm reading from the KingJames Version, the New King
James Version, and it's used 424times in 357 different verses.
Blood is very important to God.
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Apparently the respect forblood isn't based on mysticism
or superstition, but simplybecause blood represents the
life of the being, whether it'sanimal or human.
When blood is poured out, lifeis poured out, and over and over
and over we see blood as thecentral place.
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All over the Bible, blood was asign of mercy In Exodus,
chapter 12, it was mercy forIsrael at the first Passover.
Blood sealed God's covenantwith Israel.
Blood sanctified the altar.
Blood set aside the priests.
Blood atonement for God'speople.
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That's all from Exodus.
Blood sealed the new covenant.
That's from Matthew.
And they're talking about Jesus.
The blood of Jesus.
Blood justifies us in Romans.
In Ephesians, blood bringsredemption.
In Colossians, blood bringspeace with God.
In Hebrews 9 and 1 John 1,.
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Blood cleanses us, blood givesentrance to God's holy place in
Hebrews and sanctifies us.
And in Revelation, bloodenables us to overcome Satan.
There's something sacred,something totally and utterly
sacred to blood.
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In the eyes of God, it's thepoured out life of Jesus that
brings salvation to his people.
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So, moving on to verse 5-7,sheds man's blood.
By man, his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God he
made man.
And as for you, be fruitful andmultiply, bring forth
abundantly in the earth andmultiply it.
So what God's saying here issurely for your lifeblood, I
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will demand a reckoningAccording to God's command.
When man's blood is shed, theremust be an accounting for it,
because in the image of God hemade man, because man is made in
the image of God, his life isinherently precious and cannot
be taken without giving a goutto God.
By man, his blood shall be shed.
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That just means because life isvaluable.
When murder is committed, thedeath penalty is in order.
Yeah, the death penalty, it'ssomething that we don't like to
talk about.
It's something that there's alot of controversy about, and I
get that.
There's a lot of things wrongwith the death penalty,
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especially in this country.
You know the way it's dispersed, the way that it's
inconsistently given out.
Some people even say that it'scruel.
But in the original languagesthe Bible makes a distinction
between killing and murder.
Not all killing is murder,because there's cases when
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there's just cause for killingSelf-defense, capital punishment
with the due process of the law, killing in a just war.
There are other instances wherekilling is accidental.
This is killing, but it's notmurder.
God requires capital punishment.
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The Bible also consistentlyteaches that the punishment of
the guilty is the role of humangovernment.
That's in Romans, chapter 13,to restrain man's depravity.
It also teaches that the guiltof the unpunished murders
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defiles a land, and that's fromNumbers 35.
Martin Luther said Godestablishes government and gives
it the sword to hold wantonnessin check, lest violence and
other sins proceed without limit.
God requires a reckoning formurder.
Then God goes on to say Fromthe hand of every beast I will
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require it.
So to see the strength of God'scommand.
He even requires a reckoningfor the life of a man killed by
an animal.
God does not condone unlawfulkilling of any kind.
And then he says be fruitfuland multiply.
This is kind of funny, becauseit was so nice, God said it
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twice.
This point was repeated becauseit needed emphasis.
The earth badly neededrepopulating and God knew that.
Moving on to verses 8-11.
Then God spoke to Noah and tohis sons with him, saying and as
for me, behold, I establish mycovenant with you and with your
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descendants after you, and withevery living creature that's
with you, the birds, the cattleand every beast of the earth
with you, of all that go out ofthe ark, every beast of the
earth.
Thus, I establish my covenantwith you Never again shall all
flesh be cut off by the watersof the flood, never again shall
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there be a flood to destroy theearth.
That's pretty straightforward.
God says I establish mycovenant.
This covenant was made withmankind, you and your
descendants after you, and evenwith the animals, every living
creature that's with you.
This was so important to Godthat not only did he make a
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promise, a covenant with hispeople, he made it with all of
creation, with all of theanimals.
God promised he would neveragain destroy everything of the
world with a flood or to coverthe whole earth with a flood.
This was a repetition and aclarification of the promise
that God made in Genesis,chapter 8.
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God honors his covenants.
He said never again shall therebe a flood to destroy the earth
Again, shall there be a floodto destroy the earth.
Now it's important to rememberthat God didn't say that because
he believed that he didsomething wrong or that he was
too harsh by having a flood.
He made the promise because hedid things in the post-flood
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world to guarantee that theexact evil conditions of the
pre-flood world would never beduplicated of the pre-flood
world would never be duplicatedNow.
These things included theimprisonment of the angels who
sinned with human women in Jude6.
You know, the angels came downthe ones that were cast out with
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Satan, and they decided theywere going to lay with human
women and they made hybrids,changed the DNA of God's
creation of human and made ahybrid which were called
Nephilim or giants.
There were giants.
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That's all found in Jude 6.
And of course, god shortens thelifespan of man.
After this, people lived a long, long time and after the flood.
They didn't.
God did this to protectcreation from the same danger of
depravity, so that thoseprecise things would not be
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duplicated.
But when the things againbecome similar to the days of
Noah, god will destroy the earth.
In Matthew 24, verse 37, we seethat.
But it's when things becomesimilar to the days of Noah, not
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when things become just likethe days of Noah.
And if you think about whathappened during the days of Noah
, not when things become justlike the days of Noah.
And if you think about whathappened during the days of Noah
, the world was filled withsexual depravity and people who
love themselves more than God.
Kind of sounds familiar to theworld we're living in now, to
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the world we're living in now.
The world is going to bedestroyed, but not by a flood.
It's going to be destroyed byfire.
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See ya, verses 12 through 17,.
God says this is the sign ofthe covenant which I make
between me and you and everyliving creature that is with you
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for perpetual generations,creature of all flesh.
The water shall never againbecome a flood to destroy all
flesh.
The rainbow shall be in thecloud and I will look on it to
remember the everlastingcovenant between God and every
living creature of all fleshthat is on the earth.
And God said to Noah this isthe sign of the covenant which I
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have established between me andall flesh that is on the earth.
Now, this is an impressivecovenant and it was made not
only between God and humanity,but God made the promise to all
creation, including the animalsand the earth itself.
He set a rainbow in the cloudBecause of the blanket of the
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water vapors that were releasedin the flood and the water cycle
of the earth that changed afterthe flood.
This may be the first occurrenceof a rainbow.
We really don't know, but Itend to think that before the
flood, that it never rained thatthe earth was made, and it was
different.
The water was under the groundand when the flood came, the
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waters were released from underthe ground and came up, as well
as rain falling from the sky.
That's how the earth flooded.
It was something that theywould not have expected.
And if you think about it, ifyou're living on the earth and
God has told Noah to build a bigboat out in the middle of
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nowhere and the people that areliving are laughing at Noah and
mocking the man of God which isanother thing that happens these
days, similar to the days ofNoah thing that happens these
days, similar to the days ofNoah and he said that God was
going to make it rain for 40days.
Well, these people didn't knowwhat rain was.
Did Noah know what rain was?
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Noah was just being obedient.
God said build it.
He started building it.
So this may very well have beenthe first instance of a rainbow
.
God used the rainbow as a signto Noah and all the generations
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that he would be faithful tothis covenant, and it shall be
for the sign of the covenantbetween me and the earth.
Every time we see a rainbow, weneed to remember the
faithfulness of god and everyone of his promises.
He even says his covenant ofpeace with us is just as secure
as his covenant with noah andall the generations.
For this is like the waters ofnoah to me, for I have sworn
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that the waters of noah would nolonger cover the earth.
So have I sworn that I wouldnot be angry with you nor rebuke
you, for the mountains shalldepart and the hills be removed,
but my kindness shall notdepart from you, nor shall my
covenant of peace be removed,says the Lord who has mercy on
you.
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That's from Isaiah 54, 9 and 10.
In those verses it says I willlook on it and remember the
everlasting covenant In theBible.
There's other mentions of arainbow In the Bible.
They're set in the context ofGod's throne, his enthroned
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glory.
In Ezekiel 128 and Revelation4.3, he talks about the throne
of God and a rainbow that'saround it.
God set a rainbow around histhrone.
It's impressive that he set itso close to himself as a
reminder of his promise to man.
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God doesn't only look at therainbow on earth and remember
the covenant, he looks at therainbow that surrounds his
throne.
God's committed to remainingfaithful to his covenant.
Now, on the same principle.
We, as believers, we glorifyGod, we praise Him in His
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sovereignty, because we knowthat God's sovereignty is on our
side.
It means no good purpose of Godrelating to the believer will
ever be left undone.
And one other thing God saysthat I will look down and see my
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rainbow, my rainbow.
The rainbow is God's.
It doesn't belong to apolitical action group.
It doesn't belong to a socialjustice group.
We hear a lot about rainbowsthese days, but that rainbow is
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God's rainbow and that's what weneed to think about when we see
it.
So, moving on to verses 18 and19.
Now, the sons of Noah who wentout of the ark were Shem.
Now, the sons of Noah who wentout of the ark were Shem, ham
and Japheth.
And Ham was the father ofCanaan.
These three were the sons ofNoah, and from these the whole
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earth was populated.
Noah's three sons emerged fromthe catastrophe of the flood
into a brand new world.
Now, from these three sons ofNoah came all the nations.
All the way that we know peopleof the earth came from these
three.
The descendants of these threesons are listed in Genesis,
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chapter 10.
I'm not going to go over it,but you can, in verses 20
through 23,.
It says and Noah began to be afarmer and he planted a vineyard
.
Then he drank of the wine andwas drunk and became uncovered
in his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan,saw the nakedness of his father
and told his two brothersoutside.
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But Shem and Japheth took agarment, laid it on their
shoulders and went backward andcovered the nakedness of their
father.
Their faces were turned awayand they did not see their
father's nakedness.
Now this verse, especially whenyou're kids, is kind of funny.
You're giggling because youthink of Noah laying naked on
the floor.
That's something to think aboutas we discuss this.
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There's going to be somespeculation here.
But first off, noah began to bea farmer Now making his way
into this new world.
After the flood, noah began toprovide for himself and his
family and he probably planted awhole lot of different things.
Among them was a vineyard, andthis is the first mention of a
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vineyard in the Bible.
It says he drank of the wineand was drunk.
It may not have been the firstinstance of a mention of a
vineyard, but it is the firstmention of drunkenness in the
Bible.
Now, does that mean that it wasonly after the flood that man
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made liquor or intoxicatingdrink, I don't know, but Noah's
own sinful and shameful actionsshow the foolishness of being
drunk.
We have Proverbs.
I love Proverbs and if you'velistened to my other podcast,
wisdom of the Day, which is allabout Proverbs, you'll get that
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Proverbs has a lot to say aboutdrunkenness.
It says wine is a mocker,strong drink is a brawler and
whoever is led astray by it isnot wise.
That's from Proverbs 20.
And Proverbs 23 says who haswoe, who has sorrow, who has woe
, who has sorrow, who hascontentions, who has complaints,
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who has wounds without cause,who has redness of eyes, those
who linger at the wine, thosewho go in search of mixed wine.
Do not look on the wine when itis red, when it sparkles in the
cup, when it swirls aroundsmoothly.
At the last it bites like aserpent and stings like a viper.
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Your eyes will see strangethings and your heart will utter
perverse things.
Drunkenness, being drunk, isnot wise in the eyes of God.
It's also not wise in the eyesof most human beings.
Some of the dumbest, most stupidthings that we've ever done
have happened when we were drunk.
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It shows the foolishness ofthose who claim God's desire is
to make people drunk in theSpirit through the work of a
holy ghost bartender.
I've been places before wherethe people say that they're
drunk in the Spirit.
Now that could just be a figureof speech, where the people say
that they're drunk in theSpirit Now that could just be a
figure of speech.
But I've seen people that haveacted totally crazy, saying that
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they were drunk in the Spiritand stumbling around and acting
like they had no self-control.
Now I've been filled with theSpirit before.
I'm a Holy Ghost-filled man ofGod.
I have the Holy Spirit in meand I've been overcome with the
Spirit before, which set me tosinging or dancing or praising
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God loudly and acting a littlebit foolish compared to normal.
And if you know me, I'mconstantly acting foolish.
But I was never out of my mindor what I would consider drunk
like I would be if I was drunkwith wine or liquor.
Ephesians 5.8 says Do not bedrunk with wine, in which is
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dissipation or wastefulness, butbe filled with the Spirit.
It makes a contrast of the workof the Holy Spirit with the
effects on drunkenness.
Alcohol is a depressant.
It loosens people because itdepresses their self-control,
their wisdom, their balance,their judgment, but the filling
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of the Holy Spirit.
That has an exact oppositeeffect.
The Holy Spirit is a stimulant.
He influences every aspect ofour being to be better and to be
more perfect and makes ourperformance perfect.
So no, this phrase, thisdescription of being drunk in
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the Spirit, the actions of thosewho subscribe to this notion.
They're wrong.
Drunk in the Spirit has noplace among God's people.
So then we move on to the verse.
It says and became uncovered inhis tent.
Now we're going to get intosome speculation.
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Some of you are going to thinkI'm a complete nut.
Others of you are going to hearthis and think, wow, maybe this
is it.
It's just something to thinkabout.
And I say this because inMatthew it talks about when the
earth, when the world, when thepeople of the world start acting
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like they did during the timeof Noah.
So Noah is in this tent andhe's uncovered.
And in the Bible in Leviticus,chapter 18, the phrase become
uncovered and the idea ofnakedness is sometimes
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associated with sexual relations.
Now, in this speculating time,I'm going to say that when it
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says that Noah became uncoveredin his tent, there may was some
kind of sexual abuse that hadhappened by one of his sons or a
relative.
I know this is kind ofrepulsive but it's not terribly
surprising.
Many of you know many peoplewho get drunk become victims of
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abuse sexual and otherwise and alarge majority of the men and
women that are involved in daterape situations were drinking or
taking drugs just before theattack.
I mean, according to somestatistics, half of all rape,
half of all rapes, involvealcohol.
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There are a lot of more, a lotof more.
There's a lot more cost todrunkenness.
In the 1990s they figure100,000 people died each year in
alcohol-related deaths eachyear in alcohol-related deaths.
And the cost to this nation dueto alcohol abuse costs us
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hundreds of billions of dollarsevery year.
So if we think about what I justsaid, the next verse says that
Ham had seen the nakedness ofhis father.
Others think that Ham's onlysin here was seeing naked Noah.
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Think that his only sin wasseeing Noah's drunken body
uncovered and that he made funof him, mocking him as a father
and a man of God.
Literally, in the ancientHebrew it says that Ham told
with delight what he saw in hisfather's tent.
He was determined to mock hisfather and was undermining his
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authority as a man of God.
So there are two ways that youcan think of it.
That's really up to the readerand up to the Holy Spirit.
As you're reading the Bible toexplain Scripture to you as we
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move on to verses 24 through 27,.
It says so Noah awoke from hiswine and he knew what his
younger son had done to him.
And then he said Cursed beCanaan, a servant of servants.
He shall be to his brethren.
And he said Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem, and may
Canaan be his servant.
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May God enlarge Japheth and mayhe dwell in the tents of Shem
and may Canaan be his servant.
So in that verse it says heawoke and knew what his younger
son had done to him.
What does that mean?
Knew what his younger son haddone to him.
Did he wake up and get arevelation from God that Ham had
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been making fun of him, thatHam had been making fun of him?
Did he wake up and immediatelyknow that Ham had made fun of
him but his other two sons hadcome in and not seen him like
that and put a blanket over himto cover him?
I mean you're kind ofstretching that way because it
doesn't say, but it also seemsto indicate that whatever
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happened to Noah, it was morethan one of his sons or his
grandson seeing him naked.
And it also kind of explainsthe strength of the curse
because it says cursed be Canaan.
It seems strange that if Hamsinned against Noah and that
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Canaan was cursed, that it was alittle more than just somebody
seeing him and making fun of him.
That's scary to me because Itend to want to joke about
things.
Man, what an awful, awfulpunishment to be cursed for
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laughing at somebody layingthere naked.
Maybe Canaan was involved inthe sin against Noah in a way
that is not told of in the text.
Maybe the strongest punishmentagainst Ham was for Noah to
prophetically reveal the destinyof his son.
But we can trust that God isnot punishing the son.
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He's not punishing the son forthe sin of the father, because
this goes against the heart andjustice of God in Ezekiel,
chapter 18.
But through Noah's prophecy Godtold Ham what would happen to
his son.
It says may Canaan be hisservant.
In earlier, earlier generationsand this is something that I
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just need to say there was a lotof prejudice, especially in the
United States, and there was alot of churches, a lot of
denominations, especially in thesouth, that regarded the
descendants of Canaan as blackpeople from Africa, and they
used this verse, they used thecurse on Canaan to justify
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slavery.
But black people did not comefrom Canaan.
Canaan was the father of theNear Eastern peoples.
He was the father, and thedescendants of Canaan were
people who were conquered byJoshua when Israel took over the
promised land.
And I hate the fact that I haveto say that churches in America
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, that men of God in America,twisted the word of God so much
to justify something as horribleas slavery.
It's really just uncalled forand ridiculous.
And someone answered for it.
So we move on to verses 28 and29.
And Noah lived after the flood350 years.
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The flood 350 years.
So all the days of Noah were950 years and he died.
Noah lived after the flood for350 years.
Wow, noah was a remarkable manwho served God in his own
generation, but his last yearsdon't seem to match the glory of
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his first years.
It really seems kind of sad,because Noah was the one that
was found righteous of all menthat were on the earth.
The whole reason there was aflood is because God saw Noah
and said there is a man of God.
I'm going to destroy the earth,but I'm going to save him and
his family.
His last years don't seem tomatch that glory.
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It seems kind of sad that thelast thing that we hear about
Noah is that he was drunk andnaked.
All the days of Noah were 950years.
Noah was a man of great triumphand great weakness, and that's
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something that we need toremember.
As men and women of God, we cando awesome, wonderful things
for the Lord, but we will failoccasionally.
God loves us and God sees usfor who we really are.
Noah's godliness is rememberedin the New Testament, marking
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him as a man of faith in Hebrews11, verse 7, and as a preacher
of righteousness 2 Peter 2.5.
So really the last thing wehear about Noah in the Bible is
from the New Testament, wherehe's a faithful man and a
preacher of righteousness.
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One thing I want to get intoright before we finish here is
in these verses, as we comparedand talked about what happened
after the flood, and in Matthew,where it says that the end
draws near and Jesus will comeback when the earth looks like
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the time of Noah, which is nowthat this verse or this chapter
in chapter 9 points to JesusBlood.
The first thing is blood.
It resonates with the work ofJesus on the cross.
In Romans 5, 9, we arejustified by the blood.
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In Ephesians 2.13, we arebrought near by the blood.
In Colossians 1.14, we haveredemption through the blood.
Over and over and over, it's bythe blood of Jesus that all
these things are available to us, jesus, that all these things
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are available to us.
The rainbow was the sign of thecovenant that God made with Noah
, and we can compare thatrainbow with the sign that God
gave us for the new covenantthrough Jesus the bread and the
cup.
At the last supper, jesus saidthis is the new covenant.
This cup is the new covenant inmy blood.
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The new covenant, the oldcovenant, was the one that God
made with creation that he wouldnot destroy the earth by flood.
The new covenant is thecovenant in the blood of Jesus.
The rainbow is a tremendoussign and every time we see it we
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need to remember God'sfaithfulness.
But the bread and the cup arean even better sign, because we
really don't partake of arainbow.
You can't touch a rainbow, youcan't eat a rainbow, and there's
a lie going around that you cantaste a rainbow.
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A rainbow is wonderful, but thebread in the cup you can not
only see that, but you canpartake of it, and we put our
faith and our trust in that,jesus Christ.
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